Mar 30
RGU & MGS do really scratch the same narrative itch for me in a lot of ways, the more that i think about it... each piece places their events on a stage-within-a-stage, with RGU using the language of theatre and MGS that of cinema, so they can iterate on the same story over & over again. characters function similarly, too. every major player is not only themselves but also a reflection of all their narrative analogues. like, Anthy : Nanami : Kozue : Shiori, the same way that The Boss : Ocelot : Eva : Paz : Kaz. all of the Snakes are each other just like how Utena : Juri : Kanae ( : Mikage) .... i could talk about this a lot more actually. maybe i will some time.
#txt#i make comparisons btwn ocelot and anthy a lot but on a deeper level i do think all of the War-Torn Blondes are like. facets of each other.#there's maybe less of a core to the characters of MGS vs how RGU really is directly like.#Anthy & Utena (& Akio) lie at the center and everyone else in the production is just another shade of them#Snake is like this because every Snake is just a different refraction of John. but apart from that it's a bit more amorphous.#you know.#.... which also i think has to do with the scope of both narratives being such heavy contrasts.#RGU creates a tiny microcosm where interpersonal violence is amplified#MGS uses the world as its sandbox to represent its larger concepts. etc etc#this can go in my#advanced blorbometrics#tag.#intertextuality navel gazing and all that.